Have you noticed a new growth or discoloration on your skin? How about a mole that has changed color or has an irregular border?
Now you can get a free skin cancer screening at the Mary Hendrickson-Johnson Skin Cancer Screening.
There are four events taking place in Northeast Wisconsin.
-Green Bay – 4/30/16
-Sheboygan – 4/28/16
-Sturgeon Bay – 5/5/16
-Luxemburg – 5/7/16
Click here to see address, dates and time. You can also call (920) 433-8488.
After the loss of their daughter, Mary Hendrickson-Johnson, to skin cancer in 1988, Phil and Betsy Hendrickson, along with Mary's husband, Paul Johnson, established the MHJ Foundation to support skin cancer detection and medical research. In the last 24 years, the event has driven 19,500 screenings and helped detect hundreds of cases of skin cancer in Eastern Wisconsin.
Here are some interesting facts about skin cancer:
There were approximately 76,380 new cases in the U.S. in 2015, 1,350 new cases in Wisconsin.
In 2015, there were an estimated 10,130 skin cancer deaths in the U.S., 200 deaths in Wisconsin.
In 1938, 1:10,000 Americans developed skin cancer. In recent years, the incidence is increasing exponentially-1:33 for males and 1:52 for females.
Skin cancer risks are based on many factors including family history, biological characteristics such as hair color, eye color, skin type, age, ethnicity, and gender.
Risks are also based on behavioral characteristics such as the area in which you live, level of sun exposure, number of severe sunburns, amount of skin protection used, and use of tanning beds.
The good news is that if detected early, skin cancer has a very high cure rate-basal and squamous cell cancers have a nearly 100% cure rate. Melanoma has a 91% five-year survival rate.
